Anyone
else that e-mails me to say that Oscar
the llama on this video, is the only Oscar I'll ever get, will be shot
at dawn. I KNOW I cant act !!!

New
one August '17

Welcome to my website.

Though I am updating this introduction
in January 2018, this site was infact started in 2005 and the Training Section
which is, in part, run as a blog, has been updated continually since then
....sometimes several times a month. It is exclusively about llama/alpaca
training and tracks the progress that I am making working with my herd of
just seven llamas and one alpaca. All eight are receiving basic training
and reinforcement of this training, whilst two of the llamas plus the alpaca,
also receive off-lead training in behaviours that are purely for fun...
theirs and mine too. I have to confess that off-lead (or hands-off) training
is now my main interest.The methods used here are largely, but by no means
exclusively,based on operant conditioning. Clicker training has a prominent
place in some aspects of my work.

This is not a training manual as
such, but I have set out some of the methods that have worked for me, in
basic training as well as off-lead movement and fun stuff. My understanding
of camelids is constantly evolving; I am constantly re-writing bits of this
site. So please check back often!